Synonyms of tempter

tempter

noun

ˈtem(p)-tər 

as in seducer

one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire

there is no greater tempter to put off studying than my dog when he wants to play

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seducer
• siren
• perverter
• solicitor
• corrupter
• temptress
• baiter
• beguiler
• inducer
• briber
• enchantress
• persuader
• degrader
• debaucher
• tantalizer
• undoer
• depraver
• debaser
• inveigler

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tempter

Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women. — Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 10 May 2026

None of this would work without Jennings’s unsettling performance as a persuasive tempter who nonetheless seems creepy as hell. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025

Though stunt men and women had lent their skills, bones and sometimes very lives to the cause of motion picture entertainment, the contributions of the risk takers, daredevils and fate tempters was usually unbilled and little acknowledged. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025

The men live with a group of single women, known as the temptresses, while the women move in with a group of single men, dubbed the tempters. — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025

In Smith’s parable, art inscribes an intimate way of seeing—and Bowles, the tempter, leads writers to betray that vision for quick hits of affirmation. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021

The next day, Sunday, July 21, 1940, while attending a service in Holy Trinity Church, Lewis imagined a book consisting of the correspondence between a senior devil, Screwtape, and his junior tempter, Wormwood. — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020